Peculiarities of agricultural development in South Lithuania

Abstract

Changes of agricultural land is analyzed in this article. The main reason for decrease of the territory of agricultural land was forests planted in these territories. Support provided by structural funds for planting forests in agricultural land has encouraged this process. Agricultural land has also varied because of expansion of urbanized territories. It was observed that there is more agricultural land according to data of Land Fund when comparing these data with data of agricultural census. The coefficient of ecological stability, which shows either terrain is ecologically stabile or not, was calculated in the chosen territories. After analyzing how declared land of the searched terrain is distributed according to the title to land, it was determined that 75% of declared land is private and the rest is leased either from the State or from the private persons. The reasons why land is left untended and uncultivated were found as well.